Tests and assignments may be turned in any time
prior to the due dates. Any
submissions after these dates will have points deducted for lateness, or
not be accepted, at the discretion of the instructor. Plan
for the unexpected (illness, computer crash, unexpected party,
etc).

meetings: none, completely online,
at student's own pace and timing

texts: none, all online

Objectives:

1. learn how to care for houseplants
2. learn how to recognize the more common foliage and flowering
plants, or cut flowers, you see in malls, stores, and restaurants, or that
you may use at home
Whether you are looking to become a green industry professional, or just
grow plants at home, this course provides the basics of design, plant
care, and plant problems along with a foundation palette of plants.

How it works:

This completely online course combines
lecture notes and specific details on about 90 indoor plants. Extensive
descriptions, cultural information, and lists of species and cultivars are
given for key plants in groups such as foliage, cacti, succulents,
orchids, cut flowers, and flowering potted plants. Quizzes, plant
identification quizzes, and exercises are taken online (through
Blackboard). They are open book, designed to test and reinforce your
familiarity with and ability to use the extensive content, and to
reinforce key plants, plant features and topics. Email contact between
professor and students is used as needed and to share information, and to
provide course website login details to registered students at the
beginning of the semester. The syllabus on Blackboard, AND the tips
for success, will serve as your contract for the course and should be
read thoroughly. Students
are
expected to follow the UVM Code of Academic Integrity (www.uvm.edu/policies/student/acadintegrity.pdf).

"It is not so very important for a
person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He
can learn them from books. The value of an education ... is not learning
of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that
cannot be learned from textbooks."-- Albert Einstein

"Education is not preparation for life;
education is life itself." --John Dewey